What was that experience like, acting and composing? I was diagnosed with cancer two years ago, so I know what it is.
His vocals sound not like a cancer patient - because I know that. This morning I carefully listened back to each track of the new album. Even now I can’t believe, especially because the new album came out two days ago. In an excerpt from our forthcoming interview with Sakamoto and fellow Revenant composer Alva Noto, and in the wake of the Bowie’s death from a disease the composer is intimately familiar with, Sakamoto reflects on the time he spent with Bowie. The pair give revelatory performances despite being non-professional actors, and though Sakamoto never acted again in the same capacity, his film score produced an international hit with ‘Forbidden Colours’, launching a career in soundtracks that is still going strong today (with the occasional Oscar and Golden Globe win along the way). The film, about English POWs in a Japanese prison camp, framed its central conflict between Bowie’s rebellious Jack Celliers and Sakamoto’s fierce, conflicted Captain Yonoi. On Sunday night, while Sakamoto was attending the Golden Globes, the world was shaken by the news that David Bowie had passed away following his own battle with cancer. Besides their legacy as musicians, Sakamoto and Bowie had the unique experience of working together as actors in Nagisa Oshima’s 1983 film Merry Christmas Mr. The influential composer and electronic music pioneer is currently navigating award season for his incredible score to The Revenant, his first new work since being treated for throat cancer.
When we scheduled an interview with Ryuichi Sakamoto, there was a lot we already wanted to talk about. “I was with him for a month, every day, on a very small island in the South Pacific Ocean.”
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